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Another mess for Pruitt: Overstaying his White House welcome at lunch — Too many visits for lunch at the Mess earned a rebuke from the White House. — EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt loves eating at the White House mess, an exclusive U.S. Navy-run restaurant open only to White House officials, Cabinet members and other dignitaries.
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Exclusive: Trump invokes War of 1812 in testy call with Trudeau over tariffs — (CNN)President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a testy phone call on May 25 over new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration targeting steel and aluminum imports coming from Canada …
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Washington Post:
Joseph Hagin, point person on Korea summit, plans to leave White House soon — White House deputy chief of staff Joseph Hagin, President Trump's point person arranging the North Korean nuclear summit, is preparing to leave his West Wing post soon, according to four people familiar with White House planning.
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump and Bolton spurn top-level North Korea planning — After two months on the job, Trump's new national security adviser has not called a single top-level National Security Council meeting on North Korea. — National Security Adviser John Bolton has yet to convene a Cabinet-level meeting …
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Mike Sielski / Philly.com:
Eagles' Pederson on cancelled White House visit: 'I'm not discussing, it's over' — “Is this all about the national anthem thing?” — “Probably a lot of people came for it, and now they're slumming.” — What we came for, of course, was the White House Visit That Wasn't.
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Has Weighed Golfing With Kim Jong Un if Singapore Summit Goes Well … A high-stakes round of nuclear diplomacy set to take place next week in Singapore between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un may lead the way to a much lower-stakes round of golf between the two.
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Foreign leaders who embraced Trump now feel burned
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Democrats Childishly Resist Trump's North Korea Efforts
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New Republic
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Inside the House GOP's big immigration meeting
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Washington Post, Mediaite and The Week
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump and Kim could meet for second day in Singapore
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Foreign Policy and The Hill
Tracy Wilkinson / Los Angeles Times:
With rival camps in his inner circle, Trump's ideas on North Korea have evolved
Washington Post:
Trump complains about traveling to Canada ahead of Singapore summit with Kim
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Helene Fouquet / Bloomberg:
France Warns Trump It Won't Sign a G-7 Statement
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is requesting that witnesses turn in their personal phones to inspect their encrypted messaging programs — Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is asking witnesses to turn in their phones in order to access encrypted messaging applications, sources tell CNBC.
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Aris Folley / The Hill:
Former US attorney says Manafort will likely go to prison Friday
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Joe.My.God.
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Lou Dobbs and Rep. Gaetz Trash ‘Disaster’ Paul Ryan: ‘Get the Hell Out of the Office’ — If you thought SpyGate on Fox News primetime was lit, take a gander over at what's happening on Fox Business Network, where host Lou Dobbs is truly wilding on a nightly basis.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
GOP congressman blasts Trump's spy conspiracy — Rep. Tom Rooney, a top Republican lawmaker on the House Intelligence Committee, is ripping President Donald Trump's unsupported claim that the FBI inserted a spy inside his campaign. — “What is the point of saying that there was a spy in the campaign when there was none?”
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CNN:
From Reddit to Trump: How the President latched onto a conspiracy theory
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Vox and ThinkProgress
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Ryan undercuts Trump on Russia at fraught moment
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The Daily Beast
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: Economic satisfaction under Trump isn't helping his party's 2018 chances — By a whopping 25-point margin, voters say they're more likely to back a congressional candidate who promises to serve as a check on President Donald Trump, according to a new national poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal.
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
In private FEMA remarks, Trump's focus strays from hurricanes — The meeting was supposed to be about hurricane preparedness, as disaster officials gathered at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters days after the start of the 2018 season. — But President Trump had a lot else on his mind …
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Talking Points Memo and Mother Jones
NBC News:
Stormy Daniels suit: My old lawyer was a ‘puppet’ for Trump, Cohen — Stormy Daniels says in a new lawsuit that her former attorney betrayed her and became a “puppet” for President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer while still representing her. — The filing Wednesday alleges …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Giuliani: Melania Trump ‘believes her husband’ over Stormy Daniels
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Beth Reinhard / Washington Post:
Stormy Daniels sues her former attorney, accusing him of being a ‘puppet’ for Trump
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Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
US strikes a deal with China's ZTE to end crippling sanctions, Commerce Secretary Ross says — Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says the U.S. has struck a deal with Chinese telecom giant ZTE to end crippling American sanctions. — Commerce said the deal includes a $1 billion penalty …
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Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Judge Calls Trump's Border Separations of Children ‘Brutal’ — ACLU lawsuit is allowed to proceed in San Diego federal court — Administration says policy helps prosecute undocumented adults — The Trump administration failed to kill a legal challenge to its practice …
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BuzzFeed:
Ivanka Trump Was In Contact With A Russian Who Offered A Trump-Putin Meeting — Her contact, a Russian Olympic weightlifter, said a meeting between Trump and Putin could expedite a Trump tower in Moscow. — Amid intense scrutiny of contacts between Donald Trump's inner circle and representatives …
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Sarah Jones / New Republic:
John Conyers's Medicare for All bill gains steam in the wake of Trumpcare's failure.
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New York Times:
A Medical Mystery Grows as U.S. Consulate Workers in China Fall Ill — GUANGZHOU, China — A crisis over a mysterious ailment sickening American diplomats and their families — which began in Cuba and recently appeared in China — widened on Wednesday. The State Department evacuated at least …
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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Pruitt Aide Resigns Amid Scandals — A top aide to Scott Pruitt, Millan Hupp, resigned from the Environmental Protection Agency, according to a source briefed on the matter and correspondence reviewed by The Atlantic. Her last day will be Friday. — Hupp, who worked as the director …
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Liz Robbins / New York Times:
He Delivered Pizza to an Army Base in Brooklyn. Now He Faces Deportation. — Food delivery. Sanctuary. Those are often the anchors for the more than half a million undocumented immigrants who live and work in New York City. — But an incident at the United States Army base in Fort Hamilton …
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Axios
Washington Post:
Does Google think it's better than the U.S. military? — Giving in to pressure from its workforce, Google recently announced that it is pulling out of Project Maven, a groundbreaking Pentagon program to harness artificial intelligence to sift through and interpret video imagery from drones.
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Stanford Daily
Alicia H. Munnell / Politico:
Millennials and retirement: How bad is it? — Today's young adults are falling behind but there's a way they can catch up. … Concern about the financial health of America's younger generations is growing—especially millennials, a demographic boom that came of age in an environment …
Pedro Nicolaci da Costa / Business Insider:
Elizabeth Warren says there's a dirty little secret behind the Republicans' push for broad deregulation — Senator Elizabeth Warren sharply criticizes the Trump administration's wide-ranging deregulatory efforts, pushing hard against the notion that rules of the road restrict economic freedom.
Christoph Koettl / New York Times:
What We Learned From the Videos of Stephon Clark Being Killed by Police — The visual investigations team at The New York Times examines the world through the lens of video footage and other types of open-source evidence. Using everything from satellite images and audio waveforms to metadata …
YouTube:
Sen. McConnell Opposes Corker's Tariff Proposal: Let's Not Rein in the President — SiriusXM's Chief Washington Correspondent Olivier Knox sits down with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell about the potential economic impact of tariffs o...
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Andrew Freedman / Axios:
Mapped: Global temperatures since 1880 — Every area of the globe has warmed since instrument records began in 1880, NASA data shows. The planet isn't warming equally, however — the fastest temperature increases are taking place at the poles. That Arctic, for example …
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